Appeared initially as a global way to exchange information, the internet gets more and more functional. For example, it gives a wonderful opportunity to make money online: doing business online is way easier and promising, than dealing with it in real life.

The first advantage is simplicity of launching. You just need the appropriate eCommerce platform+design. And then you are ready to start.

Let’s stop at this point.

I know that it’s hard to find a good theme, especially when you don’t have a source of never ending investing into your project (the price is taken into consideration). And often cheap product is not well designed, so you will need to develop a lot of things by yourself. But nothing to despair: I have a certain way out for you.

TemplateMonster started an interesting giveaway. The prize is 100% promocode for an eCommerce template of your choice.

You know this company is holding in the web template market for more than 10 years. Due to their huge experience in web design, getting their eCommerce theme for free is really a valuable deal.

Every day we meet we meet the process of the internet evolution. It doesn’t matter if we just go to check our Facebook for couple minutes or surf for some info all day long: all such acts make us a inherent part of the web life. So, some users have an ability to see the changes on the virtual world, the others are blind. It’s just a matter of consciousness. And if the blindness is natural for average users, it’s not admissible for professional web designers, because their web consciousness is their bread.

However, even if you have some problems with your internet vision (I believe they are temporary), don’t worry. I’m here to help. For this purpose I absorbed the modern website design trends and put my energy for gathering of the most actual Photoshop website design tutorials.

Everyone knows an old legend about the Babylon Tower. Ancient people wanted to reach God and were trying to build a tower up to Heaven. However, the attempt was unsuccessful. The legend explains that God became angry and ruined the Tower. But I wouldn’t be so sure about this hypothesis. Most probably, Babylonians just hadn’t technologies progressive enough to reach their aim.

Now the situation is pretty different. All around the world we can find a plenty of skyscrapers that serve as a symbol of human grandeur. And the most interesting thing here is that sometimes the trick is not only in the extra height.

There is a skyscraper called the Tower Infinity. It’s located in fast-paced Korea, Seoul. And what’s wrong with it? Actually nothing, but the tower’s designers from GDS Architects state the building is invisible. Surprised? Well, you’ll be more surprised if I tell you it’s true.

Nevertheless, I prefer term “optically camouflaged” instead of bright “invisible”, which is more suitable for marketing purposes, not the actual characteristic. So, let’s make clear what it means.Read More

Humanity invented the internet, this never-ending source of information, but the truth of our nature is that there would never be enough. So, people are eager for more and more content, and this eagerness grows every day.

However, the other indisputable truth is that we are interested not only in the amount. We need high quality that will fulfill the requirements of our current projects: either simple and personal, or aimed for serious business. And, once we live within the borders of capitalism regularities, the quality is obviously measured by money. It’s an evident particular of the general web content evolution.

I want to help you with finding the content, so let me present GraphicStock website, I have found not so long ago. The first thing which stroked my eyes is the wide variety of choice. The visual content types are divided into 5 general categories:

The wait is finally over and WordPress 3.6 has rolled out with all the latest features that boost the content management’s images as one most preferred by users. The new release which was being eagerly awaited by developers and users and WordPress has once again proved why it still remains the most user-friendly and scalable content management system in the world. Although it makes the life of the developers easier, there are still a few tweaks that can help you draw more mileage out of this CMS solution. So below we have listed some of the useful hacks that make your life easier as a user.

1. Multi Column Content

As a developer you are aware of the fact that splitting the content into two or more columns makes your website look attractive. This helps you showcase your creativity to the visitors of your page and at the same time makes the content easy to read. Comparison tables, lists, before and after images you can do a lot by splitting the content. WordPress 3.6 hasn’t quite addressed the issue and you can use the following hack in the functions.php file.

Once you have done this, you will need to tweak the single.php file. Comment on the_content by adding // before the line and using this code

FOMO or “fear of missing out” is the fear that someone, somewhere may be doing something more interesting or exciting than you are. Millennials who’ve spent the majority of their lives connected to technology especially feel the effects of FOMO. Luckily, new apps are being created every day to make sure we’re always up to date and connected. Never miss a funny story, cool picture or group invite with these cool apps.

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Is your company lacking visibility and a better ranking for local search? Have you tried to find out the reason behind this? Well, gone are the days when it was quite easy to rank for the desired keyword by building unlimited links using the keyword as the anchor text? However, there is a great news for you! The Google Penguin update has completely changed the link building process. But why?

No matter how important or from where you have obtained the links, you have more control on the anchor text if you have direct control over the link. But in this aspect, Google is not interested in any links that you have built for yourself. It is only interested in certain exceptional cases when your reach is big enough to build links from popular sites that indicates your influence on the web. On the contrary, a link with highly optimised anchor text looks too unnatural as you have direct control over the formation of that link. An optimised anchor text also indicates that you probably have built most of them by yourself.

Google only wants to see sites link to you when it likes the content, feel it is relevant and wants to share it with the audiences. It places less emphasis on anchor text and always looks for statistical correlation that it can use to determine its relevance on the web. Here lies the importance of citation. It is associated with both signpost and acknowledgment. As a signpost, it signals the location of your source and as an acknowledgment it shows that you are indebted to that source. Your next probable question is why citation is important? Let me help you to understand its importance with two basic reasons-Read More

Today we will talk about showreels or show demos, you can call them whatever you like.

Let’s start with definition:

A showreel is a short piece of video or film footage showcasing your best previous works. It usually lasts from four to six minutes. It’s very similar to CV for certain kinds of professions, where it’s impossible to print out all your major skills on paper. For instance, a showreel works well for actors, animators, motion graphic designers, movie makers, etc.

Those videos really cost a thousand words as they can help you demonstrate all your talents in action and finally get the job your dream of.

Unfortunately, the matter is not as simple as it seems because casting directors get tons of showreels every day and there is no guarantee that yours will be the best one. Though, we will roll over for our readers and supply them with all essential information on the matter.

So, what to begin with?

First of all you should decide either you are going to create your showreel yourself or turn to professionals.

If you want to know our opinion, the second option is more preferable. Even if you have enough experience in filming, editing and other stuff like this, it is doubtful that you have all quality professional equipment for the whole process. We speak about expensive cameras, microphones, lighting, and software. Unfortunately, without these high end appliances your showreel is more likely to look amateur, which is not too good for your career.

The majority of applicants are willing to pay a trustworthy showreel or editing company to produce a video that will make them look horny as hell, showcasing only the most heroic moments of their work and make casting director ecstatic over the short yet comprehensive performance on the screen.

Most probably you will get your ready-made showreel on DVD and in electronic version for online posting.

No, no, it’s too early to breathe freely as we compiled a heap of tips that will help you distinguish a worthwhile showreel from the mediocre one.

Please, read them all before ordering a video that will change your life.

Simple showreel tips that work

1. Say: “No” to what’s not really crucial.

It’s normal if you are emotionally attached to all your works and consider all of them genius, however, you can’t squeeze them into two minute video, so, get ready to ‘bite the bullet’, stand into viewers’ shoes and cut off everything that is not absolutely monster.Read More

What’s new for today? It’s the freebie – the fresh template you have to get this week. Wine & Winery Free HTML5 Theme is a ready-made template created with your needs in mind. Whether you are going to set up a site for a wine company or any other, try this theme out and get the desired result – well-done web presence.

Any Reasons to Get New Freebie?

• Visually Intensive Layout. What color is associated with wine? Deep red and all its variations. Besides, such intensive color scheme attracts attention of the visitors.

• Effective Animation. Instead of dull visuals this design offers captivating browsing of the content that is spiced up with JS animation.

• jQuery Slider. High-resolution background images and neat tabs are featured on the home page of the theme. Tabs help wisely arrange all the information about the products of the company. A bit customized Full Screen jQuery Image & Content Slider was used to get this structure of the layout.

• Custom Logo. This freebie contains one detail that can be used apart of it – its custom made logo. It was created to be used in the following design or any other you need. Just adding minor changes, you can customize it according to your needs.

Text can be different, but in any case it’s connected with semantic ties between words, sentences and passages. It’s not surprising that the term itself originates in a Latin work “textus”, which means tissue. The letters knit the unique unity, so we get in result the autonomous reality. Earlier people could watch it into literature, but nowadays it’s more apparent in coding. Texts began creating virtual reality of internet, being a base of all the websites.

Like the ancient poetic relics have been transmitted from mouth to mouth, today the good code can be shared on the web. There is a needful process to handle with that. It’s called syntax highlighting. For the first time such thing was processed in 1985, and it was done by IBM for VM operating system. The times have changed and now we have more modern tools to efficiently use the syntax highlighting with. One them is jQuery, a brilliant JavaScript library that have taken an honored place in HTML manipulation long ago. So, I want to offer the list of the most effective code syntax highlight jQuery plugins available on the web.